Search Details

Word: armes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Meanwhile, in a report made public last Friday, the U.S. General Accounting Office, an investigative arm of Congress, concluded after an eight-month probe that Citibank helped Salinas build "a money-managing system that disguised the origin, destination and beneficial owner of the funds involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Hide Me The Money | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...with cameras and sensors, it will study Mars' terrain and weather, snapping pictures both during its descent and on the surface. It will also carry a microphone to record for the first time the sound of the Martian wind. More important, the ship will be equipped with a robotic arm and scoop, much like the arms carried aboard the Viking landers in the 1970s. Unlike the Vikings, though, which were able to paw just a few feeble inches into the Martian topsoil, the new ship will gouge out a trench nearly 3 ft. deep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Digging Mars | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...pose is classic Air Jordan. Legs spread wide and a basketball-laden arm arced high, a kid soars through the air of the Crenshaw High School gymnasium into the waiting arms of two grinning teammates, who heave him up toward the rim. The basketball slams haplessly off the forward edge to the roar of "Milk! Milk! Milk!" "You wait for Milk to dunk," quips teammate Jonathan Stokes, "you'll be waiting every game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Meriwether: White Men Can Jump | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...ground," and the Israelites don't even cross the sea; they just watch as the Egyptians are overwhelmed by it. The strand called P bolsters the priestly role, providing the familiar image of Moses parting the waters and bringing them back together in a deadly rush with his outstretched arm. Before the miracle, as the Israelites saw Pharaoh's warriors bearing down on them, they had asked Moses, "Was it for want of graves in Egypt that you brought us to die in the wilderness?" But now they broke into what Jack Miles, in his book God: A Biography, calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...topmost branches of a ceiba tree in the rain forest in Suriname, the former Dutch Guyana, north of Brazil. Thick-furred, with a red face, the monkey moves by sprawling out and brachiating from branch to branch through the high forest canopy; its long, prehensile tail functions as an arm. It pauses and looks down with the cool expression of a teenager. A monkey in a tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forests: RUSSELL MITTERMEIER: Into the Woods | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

Previous | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | Next